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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · 27d

Really smart and useful work from Aymann Ismail here:
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Charlie Kirk Helped Create an American Culture That Would Laugh at His Death

It’s hard to take the outrage about this kind of dark humor seriously.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 27d

I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...

No, Bluesky Isn’t Celebrating the Death of Charlie Kirk

Despite what right-wing influencers want you to believe, liberals actually hate political violence.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Aug 19

a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means . "

ALT: a man says " you keep using that word i do not think it means what you think it means . "

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Aug 15

DOJ's argument in this case appears to be "we're not in charge, the police chief still is," and also "we have absolute authority over everything done by the in D.C."

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Aug 15

DOJ: If administrator Cole told the chief of police, look, I need a lot of people in Dupont Circle right now to address open alcohol. Yeah, I think he is entitled to do that under the statute and under the order. And I don't see a problem with that.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Aug 13

Seconded!

Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social · Aug 13

One of the coolest stories ever published on Slate.

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For My Parents, It Was a Return Home. But I Had to Face My Darkest Fears.

My dad was a soldier, a traitor, and a refugee. What would we find when we returned to the country he fled?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Aug 12

Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.

Lauren Miller @laurenmiller.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.

Screenshot of a Fox Business News broadcast on Inauguration Day 2025, where EJ Antoni has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing a Main Street Matters interview on the Job Creators Network, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing an interview with @kitco, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

Screenshot of the Nazi battleship art for sale online.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jul 17

Nothing the least bit incriminating here, I tell you that. You say otherwise, and the president will sue you.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 17

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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.

The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jul 15

LOL. Slate @samadams.bsky.social mapped Andrew Cuomo's venturous two-block journey in his "hitting the streets" campaign launch. slate.com/culture/2025...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jul 10

Oh man. This piece by @benmathislilley.bsky.social is *so good*. I want to make it assigned reading for every pundit in the country, and every Democrat, and every consultant.

Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It.

During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.

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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · Jul 10

How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Expensive, Seductive Strategy That Doomed the Democratic Party

During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jul 7

well, you do if there's a fucking wolf

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 7

Q: Was there any discussion to evacuate before it was too late?

RICE: What we don't want to do is cry wolf

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Jun 27

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness

This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · Jun 27

With @mjsdc.bsky.social on the "Pride Puppy" fury of Samuel Alito
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Samuel Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Is a Disgrace to the Supreme Court

The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Keep in mind that any questions about my umpiring, or requests for changes to the umpiring system, are an inherently criminal attempt to threaten and intimidate me into calling the game differently next time, and will be met with a call from the federal marshal service.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Criminals.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 27

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?

Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.

She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.

Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Criminals.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Jun 27

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.

A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 27

Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor is poisonous homophobia that gives parents a de facto right to ban books in public school classrooms. It's violently stigmatizing toward LGBTQ families and filled with lies and bigotry. Every justice who joined it should be ashamed. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Samuel Alito’s “Pride Puppy” Ruling Is a Disgrace to the Supreme Court

The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 25

Obama too for that matter.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 25

Important, devastating interview about the post-Roe revival of "maternity homes," where many women are forced to give their children up for adoption—denied choice over every aspect of their lives and bodies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Adoption Should Also Be a Choice. In Post-Roe America, It’s Increasingly Not.

It’s been three years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the right to legal abortion in the United States.

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 25

Free Speech Protecters assemble to write an outraged letter, inaugurate several magazines, and write dozens of columns a week about this one single topic! (Oh wait, you don't actually care.) bsky.app/profile/sara...

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mikkelsen alleges being strip searched, finger printed, forced to give blood samples, and then held in a cell for five hours before being sent back to Oslo.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Jun 17

In writing, Trump's judicial nominees have all signaled their support for his election denier conspiracy theories, and their willingness to end birthright citizenship. But Senate Democrats didn't challenge the nominees on these answers when they had the chance. Most of them didn't even show up.

Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the Hook

Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 17

lol "capitalize"

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 17

*They moved it up to the third slot*

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Jeremy Stahl @jeremystahl.bsky.social · Jun 17

Love to see this story about the arrest of New York City's comptroller, a mayoral candidate, in the *ninth* photo slot on the home page of the [checks notes] New York Times (below such critical stories as "Who Really Invented Basketball? The ‘Human Calculator’ Thinks He Knows.").

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · Jun 17

Homan is definitely testing the waters to arrest more elected Dems very soon. his job will be all the easier considering how national party leaders still aren't treating our democratic crisis like a democratic crisis

Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · Jun 17

CONFIRMED

ICE accuses Lander of assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer

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